Modalities for the establishment of femicides/gender-related killings watch 2016, para. 68
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At the regional level, in Opuz v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Turkey was in breach of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for failing to protect the applicant and her mother from the violent attacks of her spouse in circumstances that resulted in the murder of the mother.
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences